Workers of Mondol Intimates Exiguous blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh dual carriageway in Bagher Bazar speak of Gazipur sadar upazila this day (22 September), anxious an accomplish better of their attendance bonus, while protests additionally broke out in Ashulia.
The protests on the Dhaka-Mymensingh dual carriageway began in the morning, causing excessive traffic congestion on both lanes of the dual carriageway and disrupting the dart of vehicles, leaving commuters stranded.
Workers were anxious an accomplish better in the attendance bonus for a while now, acknowledged sources.
Reasonably than joining work, they took to the streets and blocked the dual carriageway.
To bring the anguish below retain a watch on, members of the military and industrial police had been deployed on the scene.
In a single other incident, group of Asrotex Exiguous in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila started a work stoppage from this morning, anxious a minimal attendance bonus of Tk1,000, an accomplish better in tiffin allowance, and salary changes essentially based entirely on their grades.
Discussions between the group and the factory administration are ongoing.
Within the interim, after better than two consecutive weeks of labour unrest in Dhaka’s Ashulia on a good deal of demands, the garment sector group all all over again started protesting over their demands for a wage hike.
An reliable of Dekko Team, who did now not wish to be named, urged The Commercial Identical outdated, “We have accepted the demands of the group in the first part. Nonetheless now the group are protesting with unique demands, especially the query of Tk25000 wages. And they need rapid choices.”
“Workers from two factories are protesting. Mondol Intimates Exiguous group enjoy blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh dual carriageway anxious an accomplish better in attendance bonus. We’re in talks with the authorities of both factories and hope to unravel the anguish soon,” acknowledged SM Azizul Haque, assistant superintendent of police on the Sreepur camp of the industrial police.
Efforts to barter with the group and factory authorities are ongoing to realize a resolution, he added.
